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...including those at Jackson State and Kent State, where students died--the U.S. bombing and invasion of Cambodia in 1970 will never rank as a popular event in American history. Those leftover sentiments--right or wrong--have shaped the analysis of recent Cambodian history--especially regarding the brutality of Pol Pot--and prevented reasonable assessment. Most efforts to discuss the issues generally reduce to a guilty hysteria which places the blame for all atrocities upon the United States. Guilt may be a justifiable response to the Cambodian invasion but to label it a definitive history is a sham...
Least tolerant of all were the new leaders of Kampuchea. Under the direction of Prime Minister Pol Pot and a shadowy group of doctrinaire fanatics called Angka Loeu (the Organization on High), the Khmer Rouge began methodical destruction of every vestige of religion. Christian ministers were slaughtered and Muslim mosques destroyed. The greatest indignities, however, were reserved for Buddhists, who constituted 90% of Kampuchea's population. Insurgents fresh from the jungle looted the country's 2,800 temples. "Buddhas were thrown into rivers or used as firewood," recalls Oum Soum, 62, deputy director of Phnom-Penh...
Lanford Wilson possesses something that any pol might envy. He controls the wacko constituency-weirdos, crazies and freaks. Fifth of July is a redo of his The Hot l Baltimore, transported to a creaky ancestral house in Lebanon, Mo. Aunt Sally (Mary Carver), wooed and won in Wilson's romantic drama, Talley's Folly, has come back 30-odd years later to scatter her late husband's ashes. On hand are some of the walking wounded of the intoxicant wars...
...mess but himself. I keep telling him to negotiate now, while he's still comparatively strong, and give freedom back to the Philippines while he can still dictate terms. I tell him not to wait until it's too late. But that's the tragedy of dictators--Somoza, Pol Pot, the Shah--they all wait until it's too late...
...Vice Premier nonetheless defended China's support for the genocidal regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia and disparaged accounts that 1 million people had died under Pol Pot's rule. By its occupation of Laos and Cambodia, Viet Nam, he said, had become "the Cuba of the East." China's own attack against Viet Nam last year was not very successful, he noted, because many countries disapproved of it. But "we reserve our right to give them another lesson...